Metro Spirit Newsletter

The Soul Bar Listed For Sale

Hell Hath Frozen Over

The Soul Bar opened in downtown Augusta in October of 1995 in a building built in 1910. According to a Metro Spirit article from 2015, the rent was “only a few hundred dollars a month with an option to buy.”

The Soul Bar Inc purchased the property in 1997 for $45,000. At the time the fair market value of the property at 984 Broad Street was $93,600.

In 2004, the Soul Bar Inc reformed as Broad Soul Bar LLC and at the time the tax assessed value had risen to $128,073.

In 2017 the ownership reformed again as Original Soul Bar LLC, at which time the value of the building had lowered to $107,418.